How do business organizations benefit from system integration?

Bottom-line thinking ensures your future. Look at any successful, lasting company, and you'll find leaders who know their bottom line. They make their decisions, allocate their resources, hire their people, and structure their organization to achieve that bottom line.

Integrated systems are being designed for bigger and better purposes, and their limitations are being reduced. When system integration is successfully implemented, a business will be able to respond to market changes quickly and the system architecture will support these adaptations. Eventually, businesses will start to experience that the reporting, management and performance improvement is made easier and it can focus on targets without the constraint of outdated technology systems hindering the way of efficiency. Once a company can cut out the inefficiency of incompatible systems and focus exclusively on its goals, it can develop strategies to increase profits by analyzing data and weigh up the competition. Segregated systems are a roadblock that can devastate and derail even the most otherwise advanced business. It is just not possible to get the most out of your efforts when your energy is being consumed to put out the fires caused by programs that won’t work together to achieve a common goal.

System integration allows the user to operate from a single system. Changes can be incorporated from a single screen, instead of having multiple computers and processes running simultaneously. This approach reduces the time spent on training administrators on how to use multiple tools, and ensure they have a thorough knowledge of the integrated system. As there is no need for data to be exported, imported or replicated, there is lesser chance for human error. This will provide managers with more accurate data. Organizations deal with sensitive information that needs to be protected. By using one system, one can easily build in the security tools necessary to prevent access by unauthorized users both in hardware devices and software. Achieving this is far more difficult when you have got several disparate tools and systems in use. Ultimately your business premises will be safer and your systems more secure; leading to happier and more loyal customers.

eSSL is an Indian provider of cloud, mobile, desktop, and web-based property management software. In addition to attendance management solutions, we have renowned technologies that can integrate biometrics with entrance control, door locks, parking barriers, metal detectors, baggage scanners and more. We also help businesses with anti-theft and top-notch inspection systems. From boom barriers and bollards at parking areas to turnstiles/flap barriers and inspection systems (metal detectors, baggage scanners, hand-held metal detector) at the building entrance, we have everything covered. Knowing that efficiency is the biggest asset of any organization, we provide the best-in-class software solutions for security and seamless experience that can reflect in overall efficiency. 



Smart Ways to Carry Out Theme Park Visitor Management

The ticket issuing window at a theme park is a busy place. Managing high volumes of customers with traditional visitor management methods can be a hectic task in such places. Biometrics offers a viable solution for a theme park visitor management system. Visitor management systems with fingerprint recognition can overcome these challenges and enable a large number of visitors in amusement parks. After a one time enrolment, visitors can just present their biometrics to the scanner during their subsequent visits, thereby letting them skip long queues. Theme parks in India are proposing to upgrade their visitor management system with biometrics like a fingerprint. Theme parks like Disneyland in Florida have already implemented fingerprint-based visitor management systems.

Providing requisite security along with risk analysis and capacity planning in these crowded spaces is highly important. Today’s security systems must anticipate future problems because once installed, there won’t be any time left to upgrade it on the field. Therefore, the usage of crowd management technology like smart turnstiles and barriers is advised. It can support administrators in collecting information about the crowd for better future planning since turnstiles can count the number of people who enter and exit the park. This information about the speed of flow helps control people's traffic and assists marketers with providing seasonal discounts and offers. Turnstiles can also be a part of fare collection solutions, check for the validity of tickets, prevent tailgating and avoid unauthorized access, thereby ensure scalable revenue for the theme park. eSSL houses a variety of turnstiles that can be integrated to perform face and fingerprint recognition, QR/Barcode scanning, RFID reader and card/coin collector.     

In the case of theme park visitor management, visitors’ fingerprints can be recorded, encrypted to a unique long integer and stored in a database. The fingerprint data can then discarded from the database within the next 30 days for privacy-related concerns. Currently, Barcode and RFID technology are available for visitors to scan tickets and gain entry to the theme park. If biometrics is introduced, it will curb the issue of sharing or transferability of passes among individuals apart from the person who made the actual purchase.

Along with ease and security, there are a lot of reasons to authenticate payments using biometric methods. Ease of use, speed, mobility, and future-proofing are some of them. Biometrics is a unique and personal way of identifying individuals. With this approach, there is no need to remember multiple PINs and passwords. While it may be fairly undetectable, authenticating using a biometric feature is faster and easier than entering a password or pin. This is beneficial for both the consumer as well as businesses, with the transaction made much more straightforward by the adoption of biometric authentication for payments. As business outlets move to a contactless payment model, the acceptance of consumers choosing to pay using Apple or Google Pay on their mobile devices and authorizing with biometrics means that you can make a payment anywhere, anytime.

Running a company that is 100% efficient is still a dream. But having a good technology set up will result in some good business. 

Benefits of automating healthcare services

Automation in every aspect of the healthcare provider’s value chain can revolutionize the service into world-class quality. Highly developed countries have a centralized database of patient records through which doctors can cautiously treat patients by knowing his/her medical history along with their insurance details. This system comes handy especially in cases of emergency. It also makes consequent visits seamless and efficient.

Along with visitor management, data breach has also become a daunting issue for hospitals. Healthcare institutions are striving hard to overcome this vulnerability. This has led to the need for a balance between patient data security and productivity. Studies have proven that automation in the field of healthcare services like RPA (Robotic Process Automation) can increase referral rate, decrease acquisition cost and also increase revenue. 

Over the years, developments in operational efficiency and patient care standards have enormously transformed how healthcare institutions function. This is true in the case of both patients and medical professionals. Integrated security management systems can help hospital administrators to manage operations at multiple sites on a single dashboard as part of security management software. Let's consider a hospital, where a lot of resources are required to monitor all patients in wards in a one to one manner. Palmetto Hospital in Columbia has introduced the Telesitter program, where a one on one patient sitter is replaced by a device. This is a Wi-Fi enabled device equipped with a microphone, camera and speakers. The footages are accessible from the monitor room, from where the observers can alert the nurses in case of any necessity. Few hospitals also have infant protection systems in place where the mother and infant are connected using RFID tags. This helps avoid errors like accidental switching and abduction of newborn babies caused due to manual methods.